The Girl in the Picture: The Story of Kim Phuc, Whose Image Altered the Course of the Vietnam War
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When Nick Ut photographed 9-year-old Kim Phuc running down a road, her body aflame with napalm, he turned a terrified girl into a living symbol of the Vietnam War's horror. Even after the war, the North Vietnamese government made the severely scarred Kim a reluctant poster girl for American atrocities. Although her parents, once relatively prosperous South Vietnamese peasants, were reduced to dire... More
Book Information
Publisher | Viking Childrens Books |
Binding | Hardcover (6 editions) |
Reading Level | Uncategorized |
# of Pages | 288 |
ISBN-10 | 067088040X |
ISBN-13 | 978-0670880409 |
Publication Date | 08/2000 |
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